Opinion No easy solution to youth unemployment Stewart Segal outlines the response of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers to the IPPR’s Remember the Young… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Are providers playing it too safe on work experience? The importance of work experience in developing skills has been reinforcd by no less than Ofsted and the UK Commission… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion A good time for a bad ‘posh kids’ premium’ decision One of the first in-post announcements of new Skills Minister Nick Boles, for “extra” funding, emerged today and within… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion So long, and thanks for all the FE After 18 months at Newham College, and a number of FE Insider columns, Ben Nicholls is departing the world… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Looking deeper into the reshuffle at DfE and BIS While those in FE and skills wait with bated breath to find out how new Education Secretary Nicky Morgan… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion A bottom-up approach to CPD is ‘best’ Imparting knowledge of teaching is not always best done from the “top,” explains Andrea McMahon. After attending his first… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Filling UTC classrooms — why did it go wrong at Hackney? Hackney University Technical College (UTC) revealed this week low recruitment from September meant it would be closing for good the… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Preparing for a second year of 14 to 16 provision at college Nine colleges are looking to join the ranks of the existing seven that have been allowed by the Department… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion What’s the ‘interest rate’ on FE loans now? When I wrote in FE Week three months ago about the second annual round of FE Loans, the new… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Gazelle ‘front-runner’ for ETF’s £1m learning tech contract The Gazelle Foundation has been awarded a £1m learning technology contract from the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) amid… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Are UTCs another ‘purely political vanity project’ set for the history books? Hackney University Technical College (UTC) is to shut at the end of 2014/15 because of low recruitment numbers — just… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Looking deeper at the ’earn or learn’ policy debate With the Tories and Labour coming up with strategies to help young people off JobSeekers’ Allowance and into a… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Newer 1 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 241 Older
